PRECISION DESIGN

DECALS, 60' PLAIN FLAT CAR 160010 to 160059

$4.00

Great Northern supplied bulkhead flat cars for transportation of lumber, plywood, wallboard, aluminum ingots, pipe, pilings, telephone poles, and granite blocks.

These 50 cars were built as 60 foot long plain flat cars of 150,000 pounds capacity by General Steel Industries in 1964. They were equipped with 10” FreightMaster end of car cushion devices. Bulkheads 55’ 5” length between the bulkheads were applied in 1968.

Capacity was 140,000 pounds as bulkhead flats.

Body color was glacier green.

FreightMaster 10” end of car cushion draft gear.

Use Tangent car.

Builders photos from GNRHS Archives. Decals are for plain version of these cars.

These superb decals are from the Precision Design Company in Canada. They were developed with information provided by GNRHS member Richard Yaremko.

See:

1968 Freight Car Diagram Book, page D 105 as plain flat cars.

Scott R. Thompson, Great Northern Equipment Color Pictorial Book 2 page 88.